#717: Conversational AI with Amazon Nova Sonic, Amazon Bedrock Guardr…

Learn about the latest new FM in the Nova family that simplifies conversational AI with low latency, and build safely with new capabilities for Amazon Bedrock Guardrails. 00:00 - Intro, 00:27 - Amazon Nova Sonic, 03:13 - Amazon Bedrock Guardrails, 05:23 - Analytics, 08:18 - Application Integration, 08:37 - Artificial Intelligence, 12:06 - Business Applications, 13:01 - Cloud Financial Management, 13:44 - Compute, 15:04 - Contact Center, 16:29 - Containers, 16:49 - Databases, 19:57 - Developer Tools, 20:59 - Frontend Web and Mobile, 21:20 - Management and Governance, 23:39 - Media Services, 25:37 - Migration and Transfer, 26:46 - Networking and Content Delivery, 28:45 - Artificial Intelligence, 29:58 - Security, Identity, and Compliance, 32:51 - Serverless, 33:57 - Storage, 37:29 - Wrap up Show Notes: https://dqkop6u6q45rj.cloudfront.net/run-sheet-20250418-173723.html

Dive deep into the fascinating world of modern data centers with Sr. Principal Engineer at AWS, Stephen Callahan. Discover how AI is revolutionizing data center design, why nothing is uninteresting at scale, and the innovative ways AWS is tackling sustainability while powering the future of cloud computing. Learn more: AWS Global Infrastructure: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/ More about Data Center Innovations: https://press.aboutamazon.com/2024/12/aws-announces-new-data-center-components-to-support-ai-innovation-and-further-improve-energy-efficiency

Hosts Simon and Jillian discuss how you can uncover hidden trends and make data-driven decisions - all through natural conversation, with Amazon Q in Quicksight, plus, more of the latest updates from AWS. 00:00 - Intro, 00:22 - Top Stories, 02:50 - Analytics, 03:35 - Application Integrations, 04:48 - Amazon Sagemaker, 05:29 - Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases, 05:48- Amazon Polly, 06:46 - Amazon Bedrock, 07:31 - Amazon Bedrock Model Evolution LLM, 08:29 - Business Application, 08:58 - Compute, 09:51 - Contact Centers, 10:54 - Containers, 11:12 - Database, 14:21 - Developer Tools, 15:20 - Front End Web and Mobile, 15:45 - Games, 16:04 - Management and Governance, 16:35 - Media Services, 16:47 - Network and Content Delivery, 19:39 - Security Identity and Compliance, 20:24 - Serverless, 21:48 - Storage, 22:43 - Wrap up Show Notes: https://dqkop6u6q45rj.cloudfront.net/shownotes-20250404-184823.html

Automate compliance checks, manage configurations at scale, and more with AWS Config. Jillian interviews AWS experts Tim Honeychurch and Rodolfo Brenes as they walk you through how you can level up your security with continuous compliance. Learn More: AWS Config Product Page: https://aws.amazon.com/config/ Learn more about Cloud Governance: https://aws.amazon.com/cloudops/cloud-governance/

New game-changing AI developments are here, from SageMaker Unified Studio to Bedrock's new multi-agent capabilities. Join your hosts Simon and Jillian for the latest updates from AWS. 00:00:00 - Intro 00:00:49 - Top Stories 00:02:31 - Amazon Bedrock 00:05:35 - Analytics 00:06:08 - Application Integration 00:06:41 - AWS Step Function Workflow Studio 00:06:59 - Amazon Bedrock 00:07:26 - GraphRAG 00:09:08 - Amazon Nova Pro Foundation Model 00:09:32 - Amazon S3 Table and Sagemaker Lakehouse 00:12:00 - Compute 00:13:30 - Customer Engagement 00:14:39 - Data Bases 00:15:09 - Developer Tools 00:17:09 - End User Computing 00:17:25 - Front end Web and Mobile 00:18:08 - Games Internet of things 00:20:12 - Management and Governance 00:20:31 - Networking and Content Delivery 00:20:41 - AWS Application Load Balancer 00:21:06 - Security Identity End Compliance 00:22:32 - Storage 00:23:47 - Wrap up

What started as CEO and founder John Mill’s need for better wildfire information grew into tech that supported 9 million users during the LA fires. Learn how the founders of Watch Duty grew through constraints to scale mission-critical software as Amazon CTO Werner Vogels and your host Simon Elisha chat with John Mills and CTO Dave Merritt of Watch Duty about the early days of this startup with a mission to save lives. Learn More: https://bit.ly/43OLliG

Anthropic's most advanced AI model yet is now on Amazon Bedrock, plus, multimodal content analysis with Bedrock Data Automation. Keep up with these updates and more on this week's AWS News. Chapters: 00:00:00 - Intro 00:01:02 - Anthropic Claude 3.7 00:03:14 - Amazon Bedrock Data Automation 00:05:54 - Analytics 00:06:50 - Artificial Intelligence 00:09:23 - Compute 00:12:37 - Customer Engagement 00:13:50 - Databases 00:16:11 - Developer Tools 00:17:05 - End User Computing 00:17:23 - Front End Web and Mobile 00:18:31 - Management End Governance 00:19:34 - Migration and Modernization 00:20:43 - Security Identity End Compliance 00:21:56 - Storage 00:22:12 - Outro

Think you know Amazon S3? Think again. Discover game-changing new features like S3 Metadata and S3 Express OneZone with your host Simon, and guest Wali Akbari, storage expert at AWS. Learn pro tips for managing data at scale, reducing costs, and leveraging new capabilities - essential listening for cloud architects and developers. For More Information about Amazon S3 visit: https://aws.amazon.com/s3/ And be sure to visit the AWS Storage Blog: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/storage/

All the things new and interesting on AWS! Chapters 00:00:07 Intro 00:00:34 Amazon Guard Duty Malware protection for S3 00:01:54 Cloudtrail network Activity events for VPC 00:03:50 AWS Market Place 00:04:09 Analytics 00:05:28 Application Integration 00:06:39 AI updates & Amazon Q 00:09:24 Compute 00:10:13 Customer Engagement 00:11:51 Data Bases 00:13:53 Developer Tools 00:14:25 End User Computing 00:14:58 Management and Governance 00:15:30 Storage 00:17:47 Wrap Up Shownotes: https://d29iemol7wxagg.cloudfront.net/709ExtendedShownotes.html

Building a robust authentication system for your application is no easy feat - but sign up and sign-in is often your first touch with your customer. Join our host Simon Elisha and guests, Rahul Sharma, Principal PM, and Kevin Shanley, Principal GTM Specialist at AWS as they break down how you can implement a secure, scalable, and customized sign-up and sign-in experience in minutes with Amazon Cognito - faster than you can brew a cup of coffee!